Our Tbs

[krajacich]

Brian- So sorry to hear about the tank. Wow your daughter has sure gotten big....what a cutie!

Pat- my cukes didn't last long either. I still have tons of hermits and my pistol shrimp though

As for my tank:
I've been battling some algae that I think resulted from me not changing RO/DI cartridges fast enough. We moved and went from pretty decent city water to well water so my cartridges are probably working a bit harder now. But it's slowly improving. I'm hoping to add some more corals to replace the frogspawn and hammer I lost in the move but it's much tougher for me to order corals now with our more rural location.

 

[bkelley02]

Thanks Danielle. That was from October and she's gotten much bigger since then.

For some reason, my cukes have made it through the crash as well. So, almost 2 years and still alive.

 

[liverock]

cukes are tough!

cukes are tough!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9550593#post9550593 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bkelley02
Thanks Danielle. That was from October and she's gotten much bigger since then.

For some reason, my cukes have made it through the crash as well. So, almost 2 years and still alive.

Cukes are really tough.....most of the time folks toss them thinking they are on the way out because they shed a lot after shipping...or they get tossed because after arrival they can take up to two weeks to acclimate and start moving around.

When a cuke dies, is easy to tell, the literally turn to a pile of white snot looking stuff.....otherwise they are ok, and just doing their thing!

Richard TBS
Watching the wind blow.....

 

[bkelley02]

I sure am glad I haven't seen any white snot in my tank then! :rollface:

 

[krajacich]

Re: cukes are tough!

Re: cukes are tough!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9550743#post9550743 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by liverock
Cukes are really tough.....most of the time folks toss them thinking they are on the way out because they shed a lot after shipping...or they get tossed because after arrival they can take up to two weeks to acclimate and start moving around.

When a cuke dies, is easy to tell, the literally turn to a pile of white snot looking stuff.....otherwise they are ok, and just doing their thing!

Richard TBS
Watching the wind blow.....

I never tossed mine, they just disappeared. I haven't seen them since about a month after they went into the tank.

 

[patsan]

Mine was the white snot.

 

[Red_Six]

9 months and my cukes are doing great.

 

[Redstratplayer]

I love the TBS brain corals!!!!
Open and Favia brains are what got me into the hobby.

I am going to order TBS in a month. Do you think if I ask they will ship me a few TBS brains, maybe instead of the stars and cukes???

Also what’s the difference between the Florida and the gulf rock?
Can you pick which type of rock you get?


Pat
I read “Name that thing on my TBS rock” part 1 and I read some of part two
Did your tank crash? Because (No offence meant) It looks nothing like what it did (were did all that color go??).

 

[Redstratplayer]

BrianPlankis
I read looked over the DIBS site and I love the idea.

I think I read that you are going to try and breed TBS Brain corals.
Maybe when I get my TBS I can help?
How do they breed? Budding or larva?
Or are you just going to grow and frag them?

 

[patsan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9552754#post9552754 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Redstratplayer
I love the TBS brain corals!!!!
Open and Favia brains are what got me into the hobby.

I am going to order TBS in a month. Do you think if I ask they will ship me a few TBS brains, maybe instead of the stars and cukes???

Also what’s the difference between the Florida and the gulf rock?
Can you pick which type of rock you get?


Pat
I read “Name that thing on my TBS rock” part 1 and I read some of part two
Did your tank crash? Because (No offence meant) It looks nothing like what it did (were did all that color go??).

No offense taken....
No, the tank did not crash. Many of the real colorful sponge died off after a few months. The tunicates also did. (although they are coming back now)
I also wound up getting another tank with different type rock, because there are things with the setup of the 90g that I don't care for, and my husband didn't want to fix or change.
I wound up selling my tank, and took out about ½ the TBS rock in our current tank and added some of the other type rock I had. I've pretty much left the maintenance up to my husband since then, and the tank doesn't look as good as it used to. I still have my wonderful brain coral and it's doing fantastic. Some of the uglier color sponges are still there.
I really haven't taken many closeups of the tank in a long time. I'll have to do that so you can see there still is color.
I noticed there wasn't much coralline on the rocks, and bought some calcium but I don't know if my husband is putting it in faithfully or not. I had noticed it starting to color up, but I don't see any great improvements in a few weeks now.

As far as TBS shipping you brains instead of the cukes, etc.....you'll have to ask Richard. I don't know if they were all wiped out with the red tide epidemic they had. He's usually great with shipping you the kind/size rock you're looking for.

 

[BrianPlankis]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9552826#post9552826 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Redstratplayer
BrianPlankis
I read looked over the DIBS site and I love the idea.

I think I read that you are going to try and breed TBS Brain corals.
Maybe when I get my TBS I can help?
How do they breed? Budding or larva?
Or are you just going to grow and frag them?

Yes, we are going to try to breed them, any TBS owners that have these corals can try it as well if they have at least two colonies of adult size.

They breed by sexual reproduction (release of sperm into the water that fertilizes an egg in another coral, then that coral allows the egg to develop internally into a planula that is released and settles quickly into a new coral).

You need adult colonies (typically 1.5-2 years old) before they will breed and you need to feed them heavily.

You would be very welcome to join the breeding challenge if you get some TBS brains (Manicina areolata). I know Richard said most of them were wiped out during the red tide, but they've had one breeding season to recover, so maybe they are back.

At DIBS we only do breeding, no fragging. Fragging is great, but the potential for breeding is tremendous.

Brian

 

[atblj5]

When you guys get the T B S package do you get the full amount of live sand also. or do you mix with another.
Thanks John

 

[krajacich]

I took some pictures of my tank tonight....please ignore any of the algae growing (removal is a work-in-progress )

Fire Coral: (This came on the TBS rock and is spreading a bit. You can see really tiny feeder strands on it in some spots)

This one is for BrianPlankis: I've got TONS of snail eggs. They snails seem to love to lay eggs on (& behind) the Tunze and behind my algae clip.

Torch Coral: The only LPS to survive a rockslide and riding 7 hours in a moving van.

 

[krajacich]

Zoa eating Formula 2 pellets:

More zoas:

Even more zoas:

(For anyone who's moving in the near future...zoas don't mind moving at all)

 

[krajacich]

Last ones....

Ricordea:

GSP:

Finally a Full-Tank Shot:

 

[jmait769]

John - I set mine up with aragonite sand from the LFS and some base rock. Then I just applied the TBS on top of that. You can see some pics of my tank by clicking my red house.

Danielle - Looks good!!

HTH

Jay

 

[krajacich]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9554895#post9554895 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by atblj5
When you guys get the T B S package do you get the full amount of live sand also. or do you mix with another.
Thanks John

When I initially got my TBS I just had the live sand from TBS. However, when I moved I replaced it because I was worried about stirring up any populations of anaerobic bacteria present in the TBS so now I have aragonite.

 

[Redstratplayer]

Thanks Brian

When my tank is set up i hope to try and do some breeding for DIBS ,maybe snails?

To bad about the brains ill have to ask Richard if there are any re-growing.

 

[smcnally]

Are you sure those are snail eggs? If so I wonder which kind. All the ones I've seen have been much smaller and laid out in a kind of squiggly spiral pattern. The ones I've seen aren't encased like that either. I'm eager to see if Brian says what kind of eggs they look like to him.

 

[atblj5]

Thanks Guys. John